Vaping

Police to arrest anyone flouting vaping ban

Philippine police were ordered Wednesday to arrest anyone caught vaping in public, just hours after Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte announced he would ban e-cigarettes.The abrupt prohibition, revealed by Duterte late Tuesday adds to a growing global backlash against a product once promoted as less harmful than tobacco smoking.Duterte, a former smoker, called the devices "toxic" and said vaping introduced "chemicals" into the user's body.He ordered the arrest of a

21 November 2019
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Teens using e-cigarettes more likely to smoke

Two new studies of e-cigarettes may bolster the United States (US) government’s efforts to stem what it calls a growing epidemic of youth vaping.Children and teens who had used e-cigarettes were four times more likely to have taken up cigarette smoking than those who didn’t vape, according to a study published Friday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

3 February 2019
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